True to its traditions, the Mini-Festival – an important forum for 20th and 21st century music, and a meeting point for generations young and old, as well as the present and the recent past – closes with an evening of orchestral music. As so many times before, the programme on this occasion offers a selection from the colourful tableau of contemporary composition, while drawing attention to significant works which, while perhaps once celebrated, have become somewhat neglected. The first part of ...the concert features the sounds of today. Zoltán Kovács, 45-year-old bassoonist with the Opera House orchestra, has expanded and rearranged his work The Knights of the Round Table, originally written for twelve cellos, into an overture entitled Vae victis ("Woe to the Vanquished!"). The work’s march theme approaches from afar before swelling to an apocalyptic climax, as a salute to the music of Shostakovich. Péter Tóth’s composition, named for the “song-book” or collection of poems by Petrarch, is a generically exciting piece: according to the composer, this approximately 12-minute orchestral song is a mix of opera and symphony, in which the addition of a children’s choir at the conclusion raises earthly love to the heavens with the singing of angels. András Gábor Virágh, the Junior Prima Prize-winning organist of St Stephen’s Basilica in Budapest, has been a graduate in composition since 2013. His Concerto for Orchestra was completed in 2012 as a version for full orchestra of a saxophone concerto. In the second part of the concert, we will hear a large-scale oratorio by Zsolt Durkó, one of the founders of the Mini-Festival who passed away in 1997. This is considered one of the composer’s most important works and an emblematic example of the Hungarian music of the 1970s. Presented by: Hungarian Music Society (MZT), Palace of Arts
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